Voice
Our Vocal staff have extensive performance experiences and/or pedagogy degrees. Styles include classical, opera, pop, avante guard, and more. We offer performance opportunities in the form of at least 2 recitals per year, local street fairs and community requests, participation in rock, jazz and worship band ensembles.
Our standard curriculum includes vocal technique, note reading, repertoire, music theory, scales, and sight singing as part of their weekly lesson. We accept students from age 3 and up.
Our Voice Instructors
has sung nationally and internationally in Mexico, making his Long Beach Opera debut in March 2016 debut in the role of “Wissam” in the World Premier of Raffo & Stokes’ Fallujah and his New York City Opera debut in the East Coast premier (November 2016.) Other recent roles include VCGSRC as “Frederic” in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance (2021), Pacific Opera Project as “Tamino” (cover) in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (2019) Opera California as King Kaspar in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors (2017) Long Beach Opera as “Man 1” in Robert Xavier’s west coast premier of Frida (2017); Opera Theatre of the Rockies: “Radames” in Verdi’s Aida (2017/scene), “Goro” in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (2017/scene), “Pylade” in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride (2017/scene); Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (2015/Act 1), Don Jose in Bizet’s Carmen (2015/scene); San Diego Opera’s Opera on Track as “Don Ramiro” in Rossini’s Cenerentola (2016/Act 1); Opera de Tijuana as “Joe” in Gershwin’s Blue Monday (2015/2016.) Currently, Jonathan is a teaching artist and soloist with Los Angeles Opera’s Connect / Zarzuela Project and Music Director at Christ Chapel of Long Beach. He also is a male vocalist for the Billboard’s Top 100 band TIERRA and the corporate bands: The Allen G’s Orchestra, Ben Mallare Entertainment, and Bonnie Foster Productions. Fluent in Spanish.
Monday-Thursday 1:30pm-6:30pm
Monday-Thursday 1:30pm-6:30pm
Jeffrey Tay (voice, piano, ukulele)
Jeffery Tay is a singer-songwriter, Independent Artist, and Producer. Jeffery started learning classical piano a at the age of 10, and shortly after began learning the ukulele and guitar. He majored in vocal performance and holds a masters degree from Musician's Institute in Hollywood, CA and a bachelor degree from Xinghai Conservatory of Music where he was awarded “outstanding graduate student.” After graduation, he signed a contract with a Chinese label to be a singer and songwriter and released two original albums between 2013-2015. Soon after, he released 4 original singles as an independent artist, producing his own music videos, one which was pitched by MTV Chinese Channel and aired for more than one year. In 2018 Jeffery moved to Los Angeles and graduated from Musician Institute with a Certificate in Independent Artistry.
He holds awards as Top 4 in “The Guangzhou Foreign Language Singer Competition” (2009); Champion of “Budweiser of China Campus singer competition”; Top 10 in Hong Kong TVB “International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship” shows (2012); Top 4 in MTV China channel ‘Aloft Star’ (2015); Top 4 in Guangdong TV ‘Live casting idols of China’ (2016) Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. Vaccinated.
Monday-Saturday 1:30-8:30pm, additional availability upon request.
Jeffery Tay is a singer-songwriter, Independent Artist, and Producer. Jeffery started learning classical piano a at the age of 10, and shortly after began learning the ukulele and guitar. He majored in vocal performance and holds a masters degree from Musician's Institute in Hollywood, CA and a bachelor degree from Xinghai Conservatory of Music where he was awarded “outstanding graduate student.” After graduation, he signed a contract with a Chinese label to be a singer and songwriter and released two original albums between 2013-2015. Soon after, he released 4 original singles as an independent artist, producing his own music videos, one which was pitched by MTV Chinese Channel and aired for more than one year. In 2018 Jeffery moved to Los Angeles and graduated from Musician Institute with a Certificate in Independent Artistry.
He holds awards as Top 4 in “The Guangzhou Foreign Language Singer Competition” (2009); Champion of “Budweiser of China Campus singer competition”; Top 10 in Hong Kong TVB “International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship” shows (2012); Top 4 in MTV China channel ‘Aloft Star’ (2015); Top 4 in Guangdong TV ‘Live casting idols of China’ (2016) Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. Vaccinated.
Monday-Saturday 1:30-8:30pm, additional availability upon request.
Melissa Lai is a jazz vocalist/composer/arranger/educator who loves sharing in the collective joy of making music. She started out with classical piano lessons from age 4 to 13, and then started playing viola, studying with Anna Lim and performing with various youth and school orchestras. In her middle school big band, Melissa developed a passion for jazz and improvisation, which led studying jazz piano with Janet Jones and then Barb Catlin and Gary Fukushima at Pasadena City College. She then found her heart's calling in jazz voice and studied with Alina Roitstein, subsequently transferring to Cal State Northridge and studying with Erin Bentlage (of the vocal group säje), completing a bachelor’s of music degree in Jazz Studies. Melissa’s teaching approach stems from the belief that music is a vehicle for expressing oneself authentically and learning to become a kinder human, and she melds this with her varied musical background to meet students where they’re at and foster space for them to grow.
Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 1:30-8:30, Sun, 10a-3p
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one on one or two on one private lesson with teacher